yogini
योगिनी yoginiA class of fierce, powerful female deities central to some Tantric, especially Kaula, traditions.
Where this term appears
- Kamakhya: The Temple of the Goddess Temples
The Yogini Tantra links Kamakhya to Kali and extols the yoni as supreme.
- What is Shaktism? Lineages
It lives in the yogini temples of medieval India, roofless circles of stone open to the sky, where sixty-four goddesses once stood ranged around the edge.
- What is Tantra? Lineages
…y, Politics, and Power (2003), and David Gordon White, in Kiss of the Yogini: "Tantric Sex" in Its South Asian Contexts (2003).
- Who was Abhinavagupta? Lineages
Born of a yogini His father was Narasimhagupta, known in the family by the affectionate name Cukhulaka, a learned man whose heart, Abhinavagupta writes, was adorned with devotion to Maheshvara, the great lord S…
- A genre that was always bilingual Treatise
A Śābara Tantra, on the only formal definition the catalogue literature offers, is a text of incantations that alternate between Sanskrit and Hindī, addressed to a…
- Arrival at Kailasa Treatise
Shiva has his ganas and his Bhairavas, his yoginis and mothers, his bull and his ghosts.
- How Shiva lost his city Treatise
He sends the sixty-four Yoginis , the fierce attendant goddesses, to unsettle the king's people.
- The Chariot Treatise
The outermost enclosure, the three squares of the bhupura . Presided over by the Prakata Yoginis .